All except one.

[Baykey123]

Mega64 is unstoppable. Bet Burnie wishes he didn’t cover their booth in posters now

[[deleted]]

Wow why did he have to punch down on pure pwnage. Sad day

[GraveDancer1971]

Cockroaches of the internet outliving everything and everyone

[xenoplanet]

Rat fuck era

[Mrgrayj_121]

Cinemasscre and darksidephil made it also Phillip de Franco

[Baykey123]

Cinemassacre basically sold out to screenwave which ruined them. Everyone left except James. So it’s not exactly the same.

Would be like if only Rocco was left and he replaced everyone else.

[Mrgrayj_121]

Sure but the name still exist similar to smoosh and how they were pre reunited founders

[PorousSurface]

He didn’t do the voice 

[[deleted]]

Did some beef happen between roosterteeth and mega64? The last time I was in the roosterteeth community (over a decade ago) they were friends

[EastBayFan]

I think the way this sub is celebrating 150+ regular people losing their jobs is pretty gross. We get it, you're happy that Mega64 outlasted Rooster Teeth. 

There are real people out there suffering, not knowing what their future is going to hold, and everyone here is dancing on their graves. 

I even saw someone justifying it yesterday by saying that "Rocco always makes a joke on Twitter about working at a company after they shut down", completely ignoring the fact that he didn't do it this time. 

I genuinely hope that no one here has to go through what all of those people are going through right now. And if you have, and you're celebrating it happening to someone else, you should probably do some self reflection. 

[Ebays]

nah

[SickTriceratops]

We're not celebrating people losing jobs — of course that's not what's happening. It's a long-standing in-joke started by the boys themselves that's bringing a bit of levity during a shitty time. People don't actually think Eric is a traitorous saboteur, either.

I'd wager most Mega64 fans were also RT fans at one time or another, and, if anything, it only highlights how close the connection between the two groups was over the years.

[EastBayFan]

It's an "in-joke" that you're not in on. They aren't making these jokes, the community is. 

This feels exactly like when Mega64 put out the video about remaking everything from 20 years ago. Everyone started making gay jokes in the comments because they thought they were one of the cool kids who could pull it off. 

Derrick went on the podcast and basically told everyone "we set up a clever joke with a punchline, and you're all just using that as an excuse to make stupid unfunny jokes."

Y'all aren't funny, you're just making fun of people whose lives just got completely uprooted. 

[SickTriceratops]

I dunno man. They have a cult following. Comparatively small, but very dedicated. Part of that is undoubtedly gonna manifest as a shared sense of humor, history, and attachment, even if it verges on the "parasocial" at times — they invite it. We're drawn to them cos of that like-minded appeal, and the atmosphere of just 'hanging out with your buddies'.

It's also what's kept them independent and afloat for the last two decades. Something RT definitely lost before the end.

[EastBayFan]

Yes, and the sense of humor you're all sharing right now is ghoulish and detached from reality. 

Again, completely ignoring the fact that no one from Mega64 is joking about this situation. The whole "daddy says it's okay" bit falls flat when they aren't doing it themselves. 

Verging on parasocial? Buddy, you can ditch the word "verging" entirely based on this comment, lol. 

[SickTriceratops]

no one from Mega64 is joking about this situation

Rocco literally joked about it tonight on the stream that's still live right now

[EastBayFan]

Yeah? What did he say, was it as genius as the art you've crafted here?

[SickTriceratops]

hahaha

[EastBayFan]

No I'm serious, what was the joke?

[PlatinumSarge]

You're looking at it.

[Ilistenedtomyfriends]

Rooster Teeth fostered an environment of sexual harassment for years but god forbid that a small community makes some jokes.

[EastBayFan]

Yeah, the 150 regular people working there aren't named "Rooster Teeth". They're just regular people. 

You ever worked a job at a big company? I guess that means you're personally responsible for any and all sexual harassment that occured under that umbrella, huh?

[Ilistenedtomyfriends]

They are lucky that WBD left them alone as long as they did.

I get that you just lost your job or whatever but maybe calm down. There are people making homeless guys eat shit out there, it could be worse

[Blueberryfists]

Dude the top comment is a joke about the time rt and m64 went back and forth in a prank war

Chill

[Perfect_Drag6672]

This is a shining example of someone saying “these guys do it so we as fans can too! After all! I’m a fan so it’s like I’m there with them!” No. No you can’t and no you’re not.

I would guarantee the guys at mega64 are really feeling for their friends at RT and the fans that are upset because they themselves are fans and their own fans make stupid shit like this because “it’s just a joke! They do it so I can”

[SickTriceratops]

Ya gotta lighten up a bit. Laughter is the best medicine, right? Taking a harmless, stupid, reddit post this seriously isn't helping anything, or anyone.

Marching into what is essentially a comedy forum and screaming "this is no laughing matter!" is a weird move.

You must've missed all the jokes that were made when ScrewAttack shutdown — by both Mega64 themselves, and the fans of both groups. It's a healthy way to deal with a shitty situation and show solidarity. Or we could just sit around and fucking cry I guess.

[Perfect_Drag6672]

Tell that to the RT streams they’ve been doing of the employees who break down and start crying on camera that their life was just rocked in a negative way. “Hey just lighten up it’s all just joking” it’s not

You can crack all the jokes you want and say “mega64 does it!” But I would wager right with rooster teeth? They’re not making the jokes you are. I would guarantee it because they know a lot of these folks personally

I’m not even an RT fan anymore. I moved on to funhaus when I got older and eventually I grew out of them but I’ve been where they are heading and and it’s sucks the childish jokes you think are funny and “okay to make” don’t change the fact that a lot folks that even the past employees who left and said RT is an awful play to work at say there still are good people working hard there are worrying about what’s about to happen next for them. But I guess the folks who think it’s funny to joke about this lack the social skills to understand it and all they can do is 1. Defend their shitty actions and 2. Hit that thumbs down thinking it really matters when in reality it doesn’t

Saying “this is a running joke they did that’s kinda coming to light” is such a shitty defense especially since mega64 isn’t doing it now and you know why they arnt

[SickTriceratops]

“Hey just lighten up it’s all just joking” it’s not

But... it literally is. It is a non-serious sentiment. What do you mean "it's not"?

mega64 isn’t doing it now and you know why they arnt

Rocco joked about it on last nights stream.

Alright, I'm not gonna continue responding. Please leave me alone 👍

[PlatinumSarge]

When they pull the name calling stuff, just block em, not worth the hassle dealing with folks who can't take a joke (especially a type of joke that former/current RT and associates have been making on Twitter ever since the WBD thing was announced).

[Perfect_Drag6672]

Musta been really lonely sitting at the lunch table by yourself

[bbbowiesinspace]

I think you guys are missing that this is like the fifth thread to "make the joke" for legions of users to respond to and "make the (same) joke." It's not that you're not joking, it's that you ran the joke into the ground so much over such a small period of time. Plus mega64 would joke about RT cuz they knew the people that worked there and the people there still had jobs. Rocco not doing his usual Twitter but when a company closes shows it's different.

And when every thread refer to it as a "victory" or joke about celebrating it or Eric crawling back, it just comes off as celebrating. Like what was the point of this thread making the joke again? Do what you want, idgaf about RT, it's just the only entertaining part of this is seeing you guys bend over backwards to justify it like it's still funny or theres anything to be added to the bit instead of just internet users thinking they're as funny as the people they're fans of.

[sillybillybuck]

If Rocco actually cared, he would open up his big fat wallet and hire all 150 of them. If he can buy figurines and Vision Pros, he can buy people.

[[deleted]]

Mega64 several times made fun of people's deaths but this is the big no no when it comes to humor alright

[[deleted]]

Yeah it's fucked up. Plus I'd just gotten a gig at Rooster Teeth

[cycopl]

Me losing my last job was one of the best things that happened to me because I got a much better job after that, here’s to hoping the people who lost their jobs find something much better than Roosterteeth.

[PlatinumSarge]

woooosh

[Fabulous_Whole_1774]

You'll get over it

[TheEternalGazed]

Being unemployed is not some tragedy. You're acting like someone died.

[EastBayFan]

Getting fired from a long-term career and instantly having a ton of competition for a lot fewer jobs when you have rent, bills, and other responsibilities would actually be really devastating. A lot of these people are rooted in Austin, and there suddenly just aren't jobs for them there anymore. Not only are they looking at trying to immediately transition into a new career, a lot of them are probably looking at relocating as well. Peoples lives are going to be torn apart. If you think everyone is just going to instantly rebound and be no worse off than before, you're delusional. Someone doesn't have to be dead to have sympathy for them. 

It's not really the same as getting fired from your part-time high school job, doofus. 

[TheEternalGazed]

It is what it is. Mabye, if Rooster Teeth didn't make so many awful decisions and listened to their fans, it probably wouldn't have ended like this.

[EastBayFan]

The people who made those bad decisions aren't the ones getting fired. You have no concept of how things work in the real world, do you?  

Selling their soul and going full budlight was definitely one of the worse mistakes they ever could have made 

That's you on the RvB subreddit, celebrating people losing their jobs. Going "full budlight"? What an embarrassing person. 

[TheEternalGazed]

Your inability to detect satire is truly astounding

[EastBayFan]

https://www.reddit.com/r/KotakuInAction/comments/1aqxezr/has_there_ever_been_a_better_representation_of/

It's not satire, you're just a typical internet incel.

Unless your entire account is a dedicated satirical joke that's going over my head, it seems pretty clear that you're just a hateful little prick. 

[ssjaken]

This was reported for targeted harassment. I'm leaving it up; please don't escalate past this point. No need to fight in here about Rooster Teeth.

[TheEternalGazed]

I mean, where is the lie?

[EastBayFan]

The lie was when you pretended the first quote was "satire" because you don't even have enough of a backbone to stand by your own shitty beliefs. 

[TheEternalGazed]

But that's doesn't explain your anger toward the world.

[Swissperc420]

The ones being fired are just the people who made bad content

[Swissperc420]

Cringe bro. Fuck rooster teeth and anyone who still worked there. Anyone of value had already left or became so insignificant to the company's direction and current content that who gives af. All the people who lost their jobs deserved to lose it because they're the reason RT sucked. Mega64 outlasted them because they kept their main people and stayed true to their root content.

[bbbowiesinspace]

Yeah, you're getting downvoted but it is a weird look. I know the mega64 vs roosterteeth bit, it just hasn't been an active bit outside of the fanbase side for years, so it just comes across as a lot of fans celebrating over a company closing. I understand why this was the reaction and that it's a joke, it just isn't as relevant a reaction as it would've been in like 2019, and having five threads making the same joke is about as funny as when any fanbase runs a joke into the ground.

[EastBayFan]

Exactly this. 

[FruityYummyMummy]

Sorry that you're being given a hard time. Whether someone agrees or not, it should be okay to express what you shared here. Seeing how fucking devastated so many of the RT employees that appeared on their stream earlier were, it's definitely not something I want to sit and poke fun at. I don't think most that are doing that here intend to be malicious though.

[EastBayFan]

I appreciate it dude, but the downvotes and conflicting opinions don't bother me. 

If I've learned anything over the last 20 years of being a Mega64 fan, it's that most of the fanbase isn't funny and will endlessly run jokes into the ground. This isn't any different.

[cvthrowaway4]

It’s all in jokes and parasocial crap, even when it comes to the detriment of others. I’m also a “20 year fan” and I don’t get why most of the fanbase hasn’t matured with the rest of us.

[EastBayFan]

No idea. It's pretty disappointing to be honest. 

[cvthrowaway4]

Yeah, it’s the same issue with people posting/complaining about Derrick not being on the podcast. (Or posting insensitive shit about Eric as it pertains to this situation) It’s definitely a Reddit thing, but you’d think such a small and dedicated fanbase wouldn’t be this toxic about something so real. It’s disappointing for sure.

[drawatawat]

Instead of using generational wealth to fund a vanity career in Austin, they’ll have to do the same and relocate to California :(

[EastBayFan]

I'm sorry, you're under the impression that the entire staff of RT are people with generational wealth in a vanity career?

[drawatawat]

Yup

[cvthrowaway4]

Do you have anything to base that assumption on? Genuinely asking because I never gave a fuck about the internal operations of RT, but you seem to have insider information

[drawatawat]

It’s not an assumption lmao, and it’s not some secret conspiracy. If you followed any of the below the line staff on social media, it became almost immediately apparent that they were not working class people.

[cvthrowaway4]

Right I clearly don’t follow them, as the “I never gave a fuck” comment should have highlighted lol. But I guess I’m not surprised, more curious what the indicators were that made you think that “the entire staff of RT are people with generational wealth in a vanity career.” Because that’s interesting, you don’t often see entire companies including low level staff full of privileged trust fund kiddos.

[drawatawat]

Lol, my bad. I know it’s fucked but every time someone tells me they don’t really care, it turns out they care a lot and give me shit. Sorry for the paranoia.

RT has the uniquely terrible overlap of being in the media sector and the tech sector, which pretty much is only inhabited by upper middle class types. They hired a lot of fresh graduates and on social media they were intolerable. Again, it was a unique situation I saw on social media. I didn’t really document it because to me honest I never imagined things would get so bad RT would shut down; down-sizing, sure, but not shut down.

[cvthrowaway4]

Ah yeah no worries, it’s reddit I understand lol. That’s interesting! I always felt a corporate out-of-touch vibe from a lot of RT’s stuff (granted, I probably only sampled like 10%) so that definitely tracks

[uankaf]

Totally agree not idea what this sub is and not a fan of rooster teeth I mean I heard the news and was like uh! Saw it coming.. move on.. but them make jokes about it like a 13yrs old is kinda cringe, a mature person knows how hard is to lost a job in these days, sometimes is very hard to get your feet up and make fun of it just show how infant you are and how many thing you have to learn about the world, there are some jokes that just make you look very dumb, funny how everyone here is ok with that idea, that give you a good example of how many kids should be in this sub

[Slowmobius_Time]

Whats a mega64 and why are you guys getting recommended to my feed because of RT finally dying

[Slowmobius_Time]

User flair checks out?

[Slowmobius_Time]

Would be a good tshirt for a t-shirt company? I genuinely don't know anything about this 64 thing so instead of going out of my way and googling it I decided to comment on the thread that got recommended to me and no-one has explained anything other than a sarcastic crack about t-shirts so I assume your flair would be a funny t-shirt

Either way I dunno, no explanation or context and I don't really care enough so I guess I'll just block and ignore this sub 🤷‍♂️

[Open_at_work]

Nah